Month: November 2013

Our friends over at Cypress Semiconductors were feeling so supportive of our efforts in wearable computing that they sent us a few gifts! We’re going to dig into these over the holiday weekend. These include… 1. CY3271-RFBOARD Wireless Expansion Kit 2. CY3271 PSoC® FirstTouch™ Starter Kit with CYFi™ Low-Power RF 3. CY8CKIT-042 PSoC® 4 Pioneer … [Read more…]

This was our final presentation at SIC. In the middle of the presentation, the power supply fell out of it’s holder and disconnected itself from the glove. The bluetooth headset went out of range and became unpaired with the iPad, and pretty much everything that could’ve gone wrong, did. The amazing thing was that the … [Read more…]

For the Seattle Interactive Conference Wearable Computing Hackathon, we created a mobile gesture detecting fabric glove, as well as an accompanying music game, in only 18 hours. Plantronics was on site, and they loaned us a prototype accelerometer equipped Bluetooth headset that we used for “head bang detection.” We took 3rd place for “Best Usage … [Read more…]

These are a few RFID ring concepts that we created at Metrix when we first got started as a collective. We wanted to get a better understanding of RFID tech and figure out how fast we could iterate on 3D printed designs. These rings were remixed from MMaxsu.